The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-10-06
w. /. Scott. the pennsylyan,a mil.

w. i. Scott, the Pennsylvania mil
lionaire Democratic congressman
who demands that the tariff shall b
removed from 1.-The necessaries O
life is ut the head of the coal rim,
which has just added so cents a tor
to the price OF every pound of hare
coal consumed in the country. The
same ring has reduced the wages q
its employees until they are not alb.
to make on an average over 90 cent.
a day, and to keep themselves and
families from starvation are compel
ed to work their children in the
mines. instead Of sending them te
school. Their homes are novels
their surroundings those Of abject
poverty. Democracy wants free
trade that it may bring all classes.
Of labor to the salne level 1t hn.
brought the coal miners OF Pennsyl.
wanna. [Cresco Times.
What the Times says OF w. J..
Scott and the coal ring il unques-
tionably true. 1t might have added
that its idolized James q. Blaine il a
member Of the same coal ring, and
that the Hooking Valley mines Of
Ohio, in which Mr.. Blaine is a stock
holder. has been more brutal in it,
treatment OF miners than any other
coal district in the United States.
and that the miners who revolted Al
30 cents day in Hooking Valley
were brutally shot down by Pinker.
tons thugs.
The Times might have truthful,
added that no change has been made
in the tariff since the Democratic PAL
ty came into power in the executive
department Of the government, and
in the House of Representatives, the
Senate remaining Republican. II
might have added that the ''starva
ton wages Of the employees Of these
coal mines, il controlled or fixed a,
the result Of tariff legislation, il thu
result Of Republican legislation a,
the tariff is precisely ~ that pnrt,
made it.
To men who read and reason,
who draw conclusions from well au
thenticated facts there is nothinl
palmer than that the tariff il a TUT
thrown out to the public to diver,
its attention from the real evil,
which affiict it, AZ the tub il thrown
to the whale while the harpoonint
OF the victim goes on successfully
and uninterruptedly. Concentrated
wealth is the germ of chatel slav.
cry; extreme poverty makes tn,
slave. Chatel slavery has beer
abolished, but slavery il the owning
OF labor, and the most Oppressive
form Of slavery is that which ab
serbs the fruits Of toll and leaves tn
toiler to care for himself or starye
This form Of slavery exists in nearl,
all the mining and manufacturing
districts in this country and the 20,
600 tenant farmers in Iowa are bu
slaves for greedy usurers.
i Free men can only live and b
free, while right prevails. The fac
! that monopoly lives il evidence tina
wrong has mastered right, and til
fact that monopoly can trace it
, origin to law, is evidence that til
party which made the bad law is tn
criminal.
Now there il not monopoly i
existence in the United States to-da
but is the creature Of Republica
Legislation. The responsibility Of til
|; Democratic party n not or creation
but in permitting the bad laws
remain rs the protecting rgis OF ba
, republican legislation.
John A. Logan, before he had SUI
rendered his convictions to the d,
sire for office uttered this truth whic
the Times would do well to ponder:
, THE question Of money and til
/ question Of labor are one and til
same question, the solution OF til
one being the solution Of the othe
plentiful and therefore cheap none
beinga convertible term for plent
full and well paid employment"
Does the tariff tend to the col
centration Of wealth. Let the shanti,
that shelter the half fed and poorl
clad men who delve daily In IL
bowels Of the earth, and the palac,
Of the mine owners who are 'sclad
: purple and fine linen, and fal
sumptuously every day" answer ii
question